Re: date frustrations

The php manual says filemtime() returns a unix timestamp (does it do the
same in a Windows environment?). I tried the following snippet, and it
seemed to work as expected:

$dlist = array();
$handle = opendir($dir);
while ($file = readdir($handle))
$dlist[$file] = filemtime($file);

asort($dlist, SORT_NUMERIC);

foreach($dlist as $name => $mtime)
printf("%-30s\t%s\t%s\n", $name, $mtime, date("m/d/Y G:i",$mtime));

hth
Kurt Milligan


Shena Delian O'Brien wrote:
> Ok so on a web application I needed to list the files in a directory,
> ordered by last modified date.
>
> I was pulling them out in an array, fetching the filemtime() for each
> file, and trying to order them by that date. I was using asort() to sort
> the files in an array so they'd list chronologically.
>
> Well that wasn't working as planned. Files were getting out of order. I
> figured asort() could have been having trouble ordering dates
> numerically, so I tried strtotime() on the dates first, and ordered the
> files by unix timestamp.
>